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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jennifer Peltz

Judge tosses Trump's defamation suit against writer who won sexual abuse lawsuit against him

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E Jean Carroll praised her legal team after a judge dismissed former President Donald Trump’s counter-lawsuit against the writer.

Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in an order made public on Monday that Mr Trump hadn’t proven that Ms Carroll’s statements on CNN the day after a civil trial jury found that the ex-president had sexually abused Ms Carroll and subsequently defamed her were false or “not at least substantially true”.

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